[G13-help] G13 Linux driver update

[Rick L. V. Jr. <rvi...@cs...>]

ust letting everyone know that I've updated the the G13 website at
http://g13.sourceforge.net with an initial version of the doxygen
documentation.

It's _very_ rough, but there is a step by step guide for building the
latest Fedora 12 kernel and links to the patches.

As for the driver, there are still some changes to come, but it should be
rather functional, including the keymapping, leds, backlight, lcd,
joystick, etc.

For Fedora users, in the subversion repository in the extras/ directory
you'll find a udev rule file named 60-g13.rules. This should work for
other distros as well, but I say Fedora since that's what I use, and there
is a spec for making an rpm of the rule file.

If you go this route you'll want to have a g13fb group (the rpm will make
it for you) and you'll want to add yourself to the group. That way you'll
have permissions on the framebuffer device (probably /dev/fb1) when you
plug in the G13.

I'll post an update sometime next week, and hopefully I'll have time to
build a few kernels before then.

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Rick